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So you're giving kerry and Edwards a pass on saying the very same things before they changed their mind about Iraq and then changed it again to their current position?

Both Bush and Kerry believe the biggest danger to the US will be WMD in the hands of terrorists, Kerry revised his stance during the debates to just nuclear but they both agree in principal on the threat.

You cannot change the fact that both Kerry and Edwards made the right choice at the time based on the same intelligence to authorize war with Iraq. Now Kerry says "Wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time" Well John which is it? Now that we have found no weapons Bush still backs up his decision because it was at the time the right decision and because left unchecked Saddam would have reinstituted his weapons programs.

Clinton cut back the intelligence services of this country during his administration, this was due to the "peace dividend" and at the time made some sense, I won't fault him for that. However those cutbacks and restrictions were partially responsible for our not knowing the threat that would become reality on 9/11 and they were responsible in part for our faulty intelligence on Iraq. What Bush needs to do now is fix the problem, we need better intelligence now than we had during the height of the Cold War because this enemy is spread widely around the world. Some of these fixes wil be made public and obviously others will not. The Patriot act and the Homeland Security department were steps in this direction but there is still much work to be done. I don't believe Kerry will continue the work and our security will suffer.

As for some of the other statements made above I guess libs believe that only Al Qaeda is a threat to the US. I hope your naive beliefs don't get more Americans killed.